IGNORANCE
Someone has rightly observed that every man’s mountain is the mountain of his ignorance. A lot of what people suffer in life can be traced to ignorance. The moment you are able to conquer the mountain of ignorance, you will be empowered to deal with every problem in life.
Knowledge empowers you to possess your possessions. When you become knowledgeable in the deep things of God, you will become too hot for the devil to handle. To experience the fulfilment of your dreams in life, you need knowledge. When you are armed with knowledge, you will be positioned strategically to experience dominion in the strictest sense of the word.
We read one of the most amazing revelations in the Scripture.
Job 38:12-13: Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Here, God was speaking to Job concerning one of the deepest secrets of reigning in life. Job was a contemporary of Moses According to Bible scholars, the book of Job is said to be the first book of the Bible. Here, God asked Job if he has ever commanded the morning.
Another version renders it this way
Have you ever given orders to the morning?
‘Have you ever sent the dawn to its correct place?’
Another version of the Bible renders it this way.
“In all of your life, have you ever ordered the morning? Have you ever shown the dawn its place, that it may get hold of the corners of the earth and shake wickedness out of it.”
These are deep Scriptures.
“let us go examine some Bible passages on the power of creation. In Gen 1:1, the Bible says
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
We are told that God made the Heavens. Note that the word Heavens is in the plural form. The Bible portrays three kinds of Heaven.
The highest heaven which is referred to as the third heaven is
God’s throne. In 2Cor. 12:2-4, the Bible says:
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
The third heaven is described as the paradise of God.
The Bible also portrays a place referred to as the second heavens. This place can be described as the dwelling place of spirits. These are bad spirits.
The Bible says in
Eph. 6:12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
This second heaven is an abode of wicked spirits. It is also referred to as the habitation of cruelty.
The second heaven is described below.
Psalm 74:20: Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
The Bible also tells us about the existence of the first heaven. This is described in Gen. 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
God created the Heavens and itemized the duties.
To divide the day from the night
For signs
For seasons
For days
For years
God went further to institute what has been described as ordinances.
Gen. 1:15-18: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
This passage highlights the ordinances of the heavenly bodies. The heavenly bodies have been given a spiritual mandate to carry out certain functions. Those who belong to the kingdom of darkness have taken advantage of those ordinances.
Unfortunately, God’s people do not understand the implications of these ordinances. Satan has therefore, continued to thrive on the ignorance of Christian believers.
From the above passage, we discover that, light plays a crucial role in the life of man. The life of everything on earth is connected to light. Your age is determined by light. Your growth in terms of chronological age and height is determined by light.
There is a power that rules the light. Here, the wonderful words of the Psalmist become relevant.
Ps.121:6: The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
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